For years, experts have warned about the risks of relying on weak passwords to restrict access to data, and this is still a problem. A rule of thumb for passwords is the longer, the better. In this guide I will use FTP as a target service and will show how …
Read More »Man in the Middle Attack using Kali Linux – MITM attack
The man-in-the-middle attack (often abbreviated MITM, MitM, MIM, MiM, MITMA) in cryptography and computer security is a form of active eavesdropping in which the attacker makes independent connections with the victims and relays messages between them, making them believe that they are talking directly to each other over a private …
Read More »Cracking password in Kali Linux using John the Ripper
John the Ripper is a free password cracking software tool. Initially developed for the Unix operating system, it now runs on fifteen different platforms (eleven of which are architecture-specific versions of Unix, DOS, Win32, BeOS, and OpenVMS). It is one of the most popular password testing and breaking programs as …
Read More »Anti-hacking tool got hacked, KeeFarce can break your KeePass password safe
If you are a KeePass user like me, then beware. denandz just posted a tool in github that can break your KeePass password safe. Yeah, as they say, for the lulz, Anti-hacking tools (or teams like Hacking Team) are now getting hacked. Rightly so, this tool is named KeeFarce. It …
Read More »Hack Windows PC to get Windows password NTLMv2 hash
In this article Masschelein Steven shows how to hack Windows PC by backdooring it to get NTLMv2 hash and thus getting Windows password. Masschelein written the following description regarding this vulnerability and exploit: I’ve made this article because some of my coworkers don’t realize how much damage you can do …
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